Jean Cocteau Knowing Quotations

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

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

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

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

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.