Showing posts with label stakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stakes. Show all posts

good soup

Je vis de bonne soupe, et non de beau langage.

Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies)

[I live on good soup, and not beautiful language.]

poem or life

one does not begin a poem, one abandons one's life

—Mark Leidner, The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover (Sator Press, 2011)

one word

Un mot et tout est sauvé. Un mot et tout est perdu.

[One word and all is saved. One word and all is lost.]

—André Breton