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The poet doesnt invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Habits
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Escape, Escapism
Author
Jean Cocteau
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. – Norman MacCaig

Category:
Poetry

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

Category:
Poetry

I dont think Auden liked my poetry very much, hes very Anglican. – Stevie Smith

Category:
Poetry

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Poetry

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius

Category:
Attitude

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. – Martin Heidegger

Category:
alone

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty. – Jean Genet

Category:
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
Society