Henri Michaux Quotes

• He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

  Henri Michaux

  Angel, Poetry, Annoying People

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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• He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

  Henri Michaux

  Voiceless, Madmen, Dies

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

  Henri Michaux

  Bird, Tree, Doe

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• With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?

  Henri Michaux

  Faults

  Henri Michaux (1997). “Tent Posts”, Green Integer Books

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• Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

  Henri Michaux

  Limits, Speed, Speed Limits

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• It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

  Henri Michaux

  Men, Dead Man

  Henri Michaux (1968). “Selected Writings: The Space Within”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.

  Henri Michaux

  Razors, Erase, Know How

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• He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

  Henri Michaux

  Knows

  Henri Michaux (1968). “Selected Writings: The Space Within”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

  Henri Michaux

  Drawing, Desire, Adults

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• The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

  Henri Michaux

  Long, Choices, Given

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• It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

  Henri Michaux

  Intellectual, Insane, Pay

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

  Henri Michaux

  Important, Admire, Hard

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.59, Northwestern University Press

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• One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

  Henri Michaux

  Men, Two, Color

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• A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

  Henri Michaux

  Men, Together, Stones

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• I do not know how to make poems

  Henri Michaux

  Know How, Knows

  Henri Michaux (1968). “Selected Writings: The Space Within”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.

  Henri Michaux

  Should, Markers

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