Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
ANTONIN ARTAUDYou are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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