A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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.
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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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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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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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