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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Automobiles
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau

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Society
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we dont like? – Jean Cocteau

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Success
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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The nerds are my favourite sort of boys – any guy with a passion – whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think its super sweet and its very attractive for a female. – Teresa Palmer

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose. – William C. Bryant

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