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Quote by Jean Cocteau
The poet doesnt invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Jean Cocteau
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry
[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. – Warren Buffett

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Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue. – Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978

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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. – Ferdinand Mount

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