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Jean Cocteau

"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."

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Amber Hurdle

"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

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"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

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Amber Hurdle

"My heart ist melting, I love you, Drops of Gold."

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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."

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"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

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"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."

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"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
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