One must not mistake majority for truth.
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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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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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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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