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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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The cinema is death at work.
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Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
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You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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The poet never asks for admiration he wants to be believed.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.
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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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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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