Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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