Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
JEAN GENET
JEAN GENET
Jean Genet on visible
Jean Genet54 quotes“Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.”
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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
Jean GenetJean Genet The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
Jean GenetJean Genet I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean GenetJean Genet Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
Jean GenetJean Genet Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
Jean GenetJean Genet Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
Jean GenetJean Genet Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
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Jean GenetJean Genet Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
Jean GenetJean Genet The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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Jean CocteauJean Cocteau The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.
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