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

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Youve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. – Jean Cocteau

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Death
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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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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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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Poetry

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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