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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
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
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
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
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word
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
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 I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.
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Display Disturb Myself Paint Writing
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science

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