
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: The Stillest Day
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”
On marionettes, as quoted in The New York Times (15 February 1987)
“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”
Quoi que vous fassiez, écrasez l'infâme, et aimez qui vous aime.
Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert (28 November 1762); This was written in reference to crushing superstition, and the words "écrasez l'infâme" ("Crush the Infamy") became a motto strongly identified with Voltaire.
Citas
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 111.