The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
JEAN COCTEAUMy method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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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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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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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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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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