Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
ANTONIN ARTAUDCruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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