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

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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis

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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. РAlfred de Musset, Le Po̬te d̩chu, 1839

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