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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.


Jean Cocteau

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JEAN COCTEAU When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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JEAN COCTEAU Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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JEAN COCTEAU I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
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JEAN COCTEAU There are poets and there are grownups.
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JEAN COCTEAU The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
JEAN COCTEAU Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAU Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAU There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
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JEAN COCTEAU Sentir antes de comprender.
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