More From Jean Cocteau
- "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
- "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "There is probably nothing wrong with art for art’s sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago."― Allen Tate
- "Always be a poet, even in prose."― Charles Baudelaire
- "I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs."― Roger Waters