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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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Destruction Force Image Poetry Relationahip Thrive
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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Definition Honor Ideas Man Preference Superior
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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Believe Himself Life Man Mindset Place Poison Truth
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Actor Burning Call Flame Laughter Myself
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Death Poet Poetry Reading Worth Writing
I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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Creation Diagram Mindset Myself Soul
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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Mindset People Poet Quality Word Writing
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Chaos Myself Sarcasm Sink
I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Absolute Instagram Captions Myself Space
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Enough Life Myself Stage Tragedy
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Break Creation Language Life Order Theatre Touch
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Asylum Death Insane
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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Born Earth Food Myself People Preference
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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Essential Forget Language Myself Mysterious Possible Talk
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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Consciousness Day Death Force Necessary Ourselves Philosophy

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