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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it pr

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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