Jean Cocteau
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 poet's job. The rest is literature.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being...I don't think the American people want...Poetry is simply the most beautiful...I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord...We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths...I try to avoid looking forward or backward...
