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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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