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, Le Rappel à l'ordre (1926)
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5.27.2021
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