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... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The Joyful Science
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Poet
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
philosopher
Poet
sage
Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
education
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.”
Jean Cocteau
destiny
Poet
The poet consecrates himself to and consumes himself in the task of defining and constructing a language within the language.”
Paul Valéry
Language
Poet
poetry
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet
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I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.”
Arthur Rimbaud
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
Jean Cocteau
Poet
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
Jean Cocteau
Poet
writing
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.”
Jean Cocteau
Poet
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