Henri Michaux Quotes

• Henri Michaux / Poet

I do not know how to make poems

• Henri Michaux / Poet

Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

• Henri Michaux / Poet

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

• Henri Michaux / Poet

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

• Henri Michaux / Poet

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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

• Henri Michaux / Poet

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 / Poet

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 / Poet

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.