Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAUWe must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The only way to kill death is through photography.
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