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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

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Cats
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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

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Escape, Escapism
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Jean Cocteau
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Poetry
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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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Poetry

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. – Maxwell Bodenheim

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Poetry

I can find some way to make poetry out of my lifes experiences. – Shelby Lynne

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Poetry

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. – Eric Butterworth

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Infinity

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. – Barbara Deming

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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Admiration