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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – 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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Death
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After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. – Jean Cocteau

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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Dont call my lyrics poetry. Its an insult to real poets. – Bernie Taupin

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry

I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. – Allen Ginsberg

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A little poison now and then—maketh pleasant dreams. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. – Charles M. Schulz

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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