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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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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. – Stephen Sondheim

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