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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
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
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Action Appearance Youth
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Audacity Far Journey Yourself
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
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Himself Poet Rose True
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fast Move One Liner Philosophy Silence
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Hope One Liner Poet Poetry Religion

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