One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. - Jean Cocteau

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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

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I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

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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.

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