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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. - Jean Cocteau

Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. – Jean Cocteau

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. – Simon Armitage

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

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If I respect myself and believe in what Im doing, no one can touch me. – Fiona Apple

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroners inquest. – H. L. Mencken

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