Poetry Quote by Jean Cocteau — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.”

“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”

“I will complain, yet praise;”

“Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuve”

“Everything has its poetry. 94”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain,”

“Eché mi esperanza al mar:”