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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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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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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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