A french movie of the 1950's

In Cocteau's film, Orphee, there's a scene in which the poet asks the god, "what do you expect from me?"

"Only that you astonish us," the god replies.

The exchange explains why there are so many poets and so few, for the question posed is pathetic and the answer is no answer at all.

Rather, the answer is an impossible injunction, imposing a new impossibility upon the already impossible. And it's possible that a poet is someone who reassembles the world a god has broken.