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Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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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.
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Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
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