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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
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The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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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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The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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Art is science made flesh.
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
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And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
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The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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