I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say
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The greatest masterpiece of literature is only a dictionary out of order.Jean Cocteau
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
Jean Cocteau
The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
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