Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the wri

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset, Le Poète déchu, 1839

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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