After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Quote by Jean Cocteau

Topics: Reading Quotes, Writers Quotes

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his...

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his...

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me,...

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me,...

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death....

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death....

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

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

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and...

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

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

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

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the...

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Life is a horizontal fall.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This...

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This...

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time...

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time...

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.