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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: July 5
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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