One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
From Jean Cocteau
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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 is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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