"Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
— Jean Cocteau

January 1, 1970

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Dessins (1924), as quoted by Pierre Chanel in "A Thousand Flashes of Genius", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)