Hugo Ball citations

Hugo Ball est un écrivain et poète dadaïste allemand, né le 22 février 1886 à Pirmasens en Allemagne et mort le 14 septembre 1927 à Sant'Abbondio en Suisse. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. février 1886 – 14. septembre 1927
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Hugo Ball: Citations en anglais

“Our cabaret 'Cabaret Voltaire' is a gesture... Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”

Ball's diary entry, 1916; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 3
1916

“The war [World War 1. ] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.”

Quote from 'Life and Work', in Hugo Ball on Wikipedia
his remark after witnessing the invasion of Belgium by the German armies, in the start of World War 1. in 1914
before 1916

“In these phonetic poems we the Dadaist artists totally renounce the language that journalism has abused and corrupted. We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word, we must even give up the word too, to keep for poetry its last and holiest refuge.”

as cited by Steve McCaffery, in The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly; publ. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012, p. 16
1916

“I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not an anarchist.”

Ball's dairy on Dada, in Flucht aus der Zeit / Flight out of Time, 'Introduction'; University of California Press (1996)
1916

“That is the meaning of the coming of Christ.... that the word becomes flesh and man is saved from abstraction.”

Quote of Ball in his Byzantinisches Christentum (Byzantine Christianity), 1923, p. 107; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 6, note 16
after 1916

“All these poets are ascetics, monks and priests. They despise the flesh and all ballast. This world holds no enchantment for them... Poetry for them is the ultimate expression of the essence of things and thus is hymn and worship. Their poetry is one of divine names, of mysterious seals, and of spiritual extracts.”

Quote of Ball, 21 July 1920, in Flucht aus der Zeit, p. 266; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 15, note 15
while reading a book of mystic writers, Ball noted this remark
after 1916

“It is a mistake to believe in my presence... If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghost is sitting there.”

Quote from his text 'Flucht aus der Zeit', September 1915, p. 44; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 10
It was in 1915, shortly before Hugo Ball left Berlin for Zurich
before 1916

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