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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30688/">Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/1592/">Cocteau, Jean</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/poetry_and_poets/">poetry and poets</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>