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

Jean Cocteau

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
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
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
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Death Eyes Live
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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Myself Mystery Organization Pretend
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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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Attitude Born Himself Mindset Wealth

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