Beauty is always the result of an accident.
Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired.
& your personal patron Saint-why not?
Mine?
COCTEAU
Saint Jean
Saint Jean
The trouble about the Académie is that by the time
they get around to electing us to a seat,
we really need a bed. On his election to Académie Française
We shelter an angel within us.
We must be the guardians of that angel.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods.
We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
Disavow anyone who provokes
or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical.
Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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.
took it from me,
sent me another.
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty.
The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils,
but cannot wear them plausibly.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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