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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.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jobs,
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
commonplace, freshness, originally, polish
«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.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
| Keywords:
backward, Commissions, dared, down the stairs, first flight, flight, flight of stairs, jean, stairs, suit
«If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
addict, addiction, cured, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, haunts, House of the Dead, intangible, intangibles, organism, recasting, smoking, There exists
«A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
disorders, massage, massaged, organs, sympathetic, sympathetic nervous system
«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.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Best friend,
Friendship,
God
| Keywords:
Lent, realizing
«Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, obtained, of value, resulting, sentimental
«Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
Hugo, victor, Victor Hugo
«Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
differently, handwriting, tie, unravel, unraveled, unravels
«I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Luck
| Keywords:
dislike
«Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far»
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