Henri Michaux Quotes

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

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

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

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.

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

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

I do not know how to make poems

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

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

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.