Jean Cocteau's Quote - The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. – Jean Cocteau

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. – Epictetus

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Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe

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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. – William Shakespeare, HenryV

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