Jean Cocteau's Quote - The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

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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 day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Without philosophy there can be no true poetry: without it pretty verses may, indeed, be made; but in order to be really a poet it is essential to be also, up to a certain point, a philosopher. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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