Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
JEAN COCTEAUArt is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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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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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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