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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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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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The cinema is death at work.
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It is not inspiration it is expiration.
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The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.
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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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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
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There's no such thing as love only proof of love.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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