Jean Cocteau Quotes About Poetry
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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.
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There are poets and there are grownups.
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The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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