Jean Cocteau Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

  Jean Cocteau

  Life, Art, Children

• Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Poetry, Indispensable

  "The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

  Jean Cocteau

  Nurse, Rose, Poetry

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

• There are poets and there are grownups.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Poet, Grownups

• The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Liars, Lying, Poetry

• The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Poetic, Invention

• 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 surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

  Jean Cocteau

  Light, Poetry, Roles

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

• I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Indispensable, Poetry Is

• The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Jobs, Giving

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