Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUSilence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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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.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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