Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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