Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.