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Jean Cocteau

"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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Jean Cocteau
"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."

Will

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Jean Cocteau
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."

Truth

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Jean Cocteau
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

Success

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Jean Cocteau
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."

Truth

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Jean Cocteau
"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

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Jean Cocteau
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

Public

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Jean Cocteau
"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."

Poetry

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Jean Cocteau
"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."

Art

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Jean Cocteau
"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Life

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"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

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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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