Poet Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.
The extreme limit of wisdom that is what the public calls madness.
Art is science made clear.
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.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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, they finish by loading honors on your head.

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