Quotes by Antonin Artaud

“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.”

“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”

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