Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
JEAN COCTEAUIt is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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