My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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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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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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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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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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