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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an ennervation....
I invented the colors of the vowels! --A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green --I made rules for the form and...
The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love,...
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Source: Une Saison en Enfer, ...
Be equal to your talent, not your age.
At times let the gap between them be...
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
Source:...
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,...
But what if it doesn't work ... ?
and they jammed sticks
In the wheels of the first locomotive
To make sure...
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Source: A Precocious...
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists...
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to...
You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by...
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about...
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We...
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
Source:...
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that,...
People may or may not say what they mean. . . but they always say something designed to get what they...