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Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Jean Cocteau

Birthname

Birthday: July 5, 1889

Birthplace: Maisons-Laffitte, France

Death: October 11, 1963

Educated At: Lycée Condorcet

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: France

Occupations: Painter, Postage Stamp Designer, Playwright, Voice Actor, Choreographer

Total quotes: 5

“I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”

— Jean Cocteau, Poems

Tagged: Emotion, Nature, Poetic Words

“Poetry finds first and seeks afterwards. It is the quarry of exegesis which is unquestionably a Muse because it is apt to decipher our codes, to illuminate our inner darkness, and to tell us about what we were unaware of having said.”

— Jean Cocteau, Language and Style: Collected Papers of Stephen Ullmann

Tagged: Poetry, Creative Writing, Exegesis

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”

— Jean Cocteau, Jean Genius: Jean Cocteau

Tagged: style, The Way We Learn, Writing, Fashion, Quote of the Moment

“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”

— Jean Cocteau, Discours du Grand Sommeil

Tagged: Artists, Dead Guys

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.' Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.”

— Jean Cocteau, The Holy Terrors

Tagged: heart, Fashion, Heaviness

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