Clément Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau, Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963), in Le soleil noir, Le Livre blanc, Le Livre de Poche, Paris, 2017, pp.47-48, est un poète, cinéaste, dessinateur, graphiste, dramaturge français dont le talent littéraire, poétique et artistique aura fortement influencé le XXème siècle. En 1955, il est élu à l’Académie française.

« When Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais both lived in the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, Cocteau used to slip poems under the door of Jean Marais’ bedroom at night. »

BLACK SUN

The portrait will being like you
As white looks like white
And like the rose to the rose
It’s the same and it’s something else.

He looks like a portrait
But it is to our hearts that it resembles
When you draw my lines
Our features are all woven together.

The storm bursts after love
(it bursts after our storm)
And the lightning illuminates around
The black sun on your face.

Clément Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau, Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963), in Le soleil noir, Le Livre blanc, Le Livre de Poche, Paris, 2017, pp.47-48, is a French poet, filmmaker, draftsman, graphic designer, playwright whose literary, poetic and artistic talent has strongly influenced the 20th century. In 1955, he was elected to the French Academy.