Logo
Quote by Antonin Artaud
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed

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

Other quotes by Antonin Artaud

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Despair
Author
Antonin Artaud
Read Quote

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Order
Author
Antonin Artaud
Read Quote

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Poetry
Author
Antonin Artaud
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Poetry

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

Category:
Poetry

There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

Category:
Poetry
[P]oetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch… – Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. – Miranda Richardson

Category:
Attitude

The best way to know God is to love many things. – Vincent Van Gogh

Category:
best

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? – Manuel Puig

Category:
History

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didnt raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because Im passionate about food! – Hugh Jackman

Category:
car