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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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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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Jean Cocteau
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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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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. – J. K. Rowling

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Poetry

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. – Richard Rosen

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Poetry

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. – Proverb

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Fortune

Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. – Vachel Lindsay

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Presidents Day

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all dont have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. – Luke Scott

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Freedom

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Enthusiasm