Why, I am rather fond of tragedies — The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

Why, I am rather fond of tragedies

i'm not sentimental--i'm as romantic as you are. the idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.

Jean Cocteau
(via thatlitsite)

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