Frases de Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Fecha de nacimiento: 5. Julio 1889
Fecha de muerte: 11. Octubre 1963
Jean Cocteau fue un poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, pintor, ocultista, diseñador, crítico y cineasta francés.
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„Living is a horizontal fall.“
— Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Diary of His Cure
„Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility.“
— Jean Cocteau
Context: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does not prevent it from being an outrage to modesty, though its exhibitionism is squandered on the blind. It is enough for poetry to express a personal ethic, which can then break away in the form of a work. It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...
„It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...“
— Jean Cocteau
Context: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does not prevent it from being an outrage to modesty, though its exhibitionism is squandered on the blind. It is enough for poetry to express a personal ethic, which can then break away in the form of a work. It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...
