Quote by Antonin Artaud
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shinin

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

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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. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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Tyranny
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – Antonin Artaud

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Morning
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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Since when was genius found respectable? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Genius

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Genius

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

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Genius

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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