Quotes by Cocteau, Jean

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. >>

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us i >>

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the wor >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that >>

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. >>

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death >>

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean