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Jean Cocteau

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Creation Force Himself Language Live Manipulation People Poem Poet Understand
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Death Greatness Media Myself News Pieces Sad Yourself
You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Death Mirror See Yourself
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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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Creativity Inspirational Motivational World Yourself
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Count Earth Moment
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Art Lying Preference Reality
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Children Mad Patience Poet Try
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way

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