328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the perform-ance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far