What did Jean Cocteau mean by: I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France Copy
+ One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Jean Cocteau, Art, Artist, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Funny, Witty, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Assessment, Mystery, Organized, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ A little too much is just enough for me. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, Jean Cocteau, Enough, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Addiction, House, Smoking, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ A picture is not a window…an abstract refers to no reality but its own. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Abstract, Reality, Window, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Jean Cocteau, Proof, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Mistake, Numbers, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: “There is no indispensable man” - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President · USA
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
