I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
JEAN COCTEAUA true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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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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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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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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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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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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