My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
JEAN COCTEAUThe extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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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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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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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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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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