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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends h

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. – Jean Cocteau

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I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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Poetry is composing for the breath. – Peter Davison

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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. – Ad Reinhardt

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Candor is a compliment it implies equality. Its how true friends talk. – Peggy Noonan

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper

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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. – Proverb

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