Poetry is a religion with no hope.
JEAN COCTEAUYouth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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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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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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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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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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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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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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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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