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• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
• Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky
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• The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. — Novalis
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• Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. — Heinrich Heine
• The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on… — William Butler Yeats
• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when… — Robert Browning
• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J D Salinger
• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo
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