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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Jean Cocteau

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
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Deep Lying One Liner Poet Talk Truth
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
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
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Complication Simplicity Style Way
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
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
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Deep Evidence Love Philosophy
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Day Death Mirror Myself Work
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

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