Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share
