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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.

Jean Cocteau

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Language Myself Nature Ocean Understand
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Art Artist Discussion Plant Talk Voice
I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Control Feeling Myself
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Discipline Oneself Period Talk Theft
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Elegant Existence Notice
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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Difficult Earth Live Serious
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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Attitude Bad Identity Mood People Personality
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Death Drugs Ghost Home
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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Death Expression Life Love Oneself Training
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
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Beautiful Curse Recognition
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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Animal Dog Hope Performance Poetry Religion Service Training
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Fountain Movie One Liner Thinking

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