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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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Art is science made flesh.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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My only politics have been friendship.
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
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