Grownups Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “There are poets and there are grownups.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grownups Inspirational Poet Poetry
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — 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 Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to wear perfume.… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
