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Jean Cocteau

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

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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