Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
JEAN COCTEAUEverything 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.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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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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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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