And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love! |
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. |
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. |
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. |
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. |
He would say, 'How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away someday, far away...' And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. |
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. |
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. |
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. |
I is another. |
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. |
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn. |
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. |
In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities. |
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. |