A Quote by Jean Cocteau
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.
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Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be.
I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
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The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
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