I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.
Jean GenetPoetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
Jean GenetAnyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean GenetA great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet