Quote of Jean Cocteau - Poets don’t draw. They unravel their...
Biography - Jean Cocteau:
French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1963
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1889 - Died: 1963
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes for: writing
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Quotes for: Poet
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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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