All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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