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The poet doesnt invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to ones preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. – Jean Cocteau

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design
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Jean Cocteau
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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Drugs
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Jean Cocteau
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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Poetry

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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Poetry

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Well, Art is Art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx

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Art

Good government is the outcome of private virtue. – John Jay Chapman

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Government

It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Truth

Wise care keeps what it has gained. – Danish proverb

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Wisdom