One must not mistake majority for truth.
JEAN COCTEAUPoetry is a religion with no hope.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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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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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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