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Antonin Artaud: Written poetry is...

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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.


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