The only way to kill death is through photography.
JEAN COCTEAUI love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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