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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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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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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. – Jean Cocteau

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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I have had much to learn from Swedens poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. – Knut Hamsun

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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