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. – Antonin Artaud

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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. – Antonin Artaud

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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. – Antonin Artaud

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. – Adrian Mitchell

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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