"Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible."

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Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jean Genet

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“If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.”
“In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.”
“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.”
“I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.”
“It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.”

Source : 1979 TheMyth Makers,'Pasternak'.
“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.”

Source : "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.
“When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction.”
“Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.”

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