What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAUI only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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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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Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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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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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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