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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."
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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."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
God
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
Poet
"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
Act
"Life is a horizontal fall."
Life
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
Public
"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
Reading
"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
Friendship
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