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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – 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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Im not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on Paradise Lost to translate it. – Callan McAuliffe

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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you cant teach poetry. This is ridiculous. – Norman MacCaig

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. – Joni Mitchell

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[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. – William P. Young

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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You are a fountain of the sun’s light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. – Rumi

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