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Quote by Jean Cocteau
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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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetrys always dead, you know? You dont realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. – Richard Hell

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch

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