Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.


Jean Cocteau

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If only I knew what I know
I'd make it a point to say so.
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JEAN PAUL
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR
Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET