It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAUThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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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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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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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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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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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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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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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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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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