Jean Cocteau's Quote - Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends h

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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

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. – Robert Graves

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