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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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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. – Jean Cocteau

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Art
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Jean Cocteau
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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Drugs
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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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I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. Its for others its for others to use. – Leonard Cohen

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My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison

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