Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
JEAN COCTEAUWealth 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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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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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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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