Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language tha >>

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from >>

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as e >>

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it sh >>

A person born with an instinct for poverty. >>

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

Artaud, Antonin