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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

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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Best Friendship God Lost Mercy Myself
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Help Important Recognition
The 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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Force Habit Learning Object Place Poet Position Soul Tragedy Visible World
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Death Fear Love Myself People
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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Himself Reading Stupidity
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Artist Cost Material Money Movie
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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Artist Paint Photograph Poet Rare True
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Beautiful Myself See Talk Woman
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Art Conscious Deep Marriage Philosophy Spiritual
Art is science in the flesh.
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Art Body One Liner Science
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
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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Light Ourselves Poetry Record Role Strict Surprise Word

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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