Quotes by Cocteau, Jean

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. >>

I am a lie who always speaks the truth. >>

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair >>

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. >>

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. >>

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.

Cocteau, Jean