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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

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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 Quotes

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 instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Art French Director

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. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

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 French Director

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. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

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.

Best Friends French Director

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Animals French Director

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Quotes

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

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