What did Jean Cocteau mean by: The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France Copy
+ Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Glasses, Mirrors, Watches, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Museums, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Acceptance, Rivers, Source, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ The artist must know how far to go too far. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Jean Cocteau, Artist, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ One sits down first; one thinks afterwards. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Jean Cocteau, First, Time, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Audacity, Courtesy, Knowing, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Cocteau, Joy, Youth, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
+ And history becomes legend and legend becomes history. Feraz Zeid, August 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Jean Cocteau, History, Legends, 0 - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
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
