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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

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
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Acceptance Deserve Oneself Reward Yourself
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
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
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
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Disappoint Experience Friendship Love Short
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Artist Escape Kind Prison Work
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Funny Magic Miracle Ourselves Water
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Call Limitation Public Wisdom
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
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
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Ability Health Laughter Sign Soul
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
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

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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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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