Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUChildren and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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