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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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