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Jean Cocteau Quotes & Sayings
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75 entries tagged including 36 subtopics.
Last updated May 2024
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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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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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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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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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