Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUAfter you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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