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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

Jean Cocteau

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
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth
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
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Achievement Elegant Hope Life Live Poetry
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty 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
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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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Unique Work Yourself
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth

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