I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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