image

No image satisfies me unless it is at the same time Knowledge, unless it carries with it its substance as well as its lucidity.
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That which belongs to the realm of the image is irreducible by reason and must remain within the image or be annihilated.

—Antonin Artaud, “Manifesto in Clear Language”

veneration

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

—Antonin Artaud