Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Source: The Theater and Its Double, ch. 6, 1938; tr. 1958.
-- Antonin Artaud, (Sep 4 1896-1948), French dramatist, poet, actor; He was theoretician of the Surrealist movement; tried to replace bourgeois classical theatre with his primitive ceremonies of theatre of cruelty.