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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Jean Cocteau

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Believe Explanation Luck
The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
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
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
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

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

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