Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUThe speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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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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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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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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One must not mistake majority for truth.
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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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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