More from Jean Cocteau

  1. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
  2. Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it …
  3. A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
  4. A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. ... Th…
  5. Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontan…
  6. If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
  7. 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 surprisin…
  8. There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

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