Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
JEAN COCTEAUThe job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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