Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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