We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
JEAN COCTEAUThe joy of the young is to disobey.
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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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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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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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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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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