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Jean Cocteau

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

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Donna Grant

"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

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Donna Grant

"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

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Donna Grant

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

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Donna Grant

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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Donna Grant

"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

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Donna Grant

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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Donna Grant

"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

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Donna Grant

"There are very few great poets in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

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Donna Grant

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

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Jean Cocteau
"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."

Will

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Jean Cocteau
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."

Truth

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Jean Cocteau
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

God

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Jean Cocteau
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."

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Jean Cocteau
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."

Will

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Jean Cocteau
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

Success

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Jean Cocteau
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."

Love

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Jean Cocteau
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."

Friendship

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Jean Cocteau
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

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Jean Cocteau
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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