Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
Interview for Billboard Magazine, February 2011.
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
“Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
On incentive as a journalist, quoted by Rosamund Essex Church Times (December 30, 1983)
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
On met très longtemps à devenir jeune. <br class="br">As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ <br class="br">1950s
“Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Quoted in Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography, Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233
1950s
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Memorandum reference to the instantaneous success of Childe Harold and quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), chapter 14.