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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

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Death Live Myself Teaching Try
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Believe Deep Religious Spirit
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Art Beautiful Fashion Hands Production Time Ugly
One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Deep Mistake One Liner Oneself Truth
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Feeling Goodness Motivational Music Mystery Object
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Choice Death Kill Option Save Torture
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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Drive Myself Name Poetry Simplicity Wait
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
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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Care Criticism Listening Work Yourself
The joy of the young is to disobey.
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Joy Obey One Liner Young
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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Myself Poetry Talk
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Devil Dirty Yourself
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Appearance Deep Perspective Time Work

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