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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Jean Cocteau

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
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
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
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
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
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Animal Cat Enjoyment Home Love Myself Soul Visible
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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Difference Follow Myself Road Room
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success

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