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

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Jean Cocteau: "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."

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Clean	Commonplace	Done	Effect
Freshness	Light	Literature	Originality
Originally	Poets	Polish	Produces
Rest	Same	Spontaneity	Take
Youth

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