Frases de Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux
Data de nascimento: 24. Maio 1899
Data de falecimento: 19. Outubro 1984
Henri Michaux foi um escritor, poeta e pintor belga de expressão francesa, que obteve a nacionalidade francesa em 1955. Explorou o eu interior e o sofrimento humano através de sonhos, fantasias e experiências com drogas.
Citações Henri Michaux
„Ai dos que se contentam com pouco!.“
— Henri Michaux
citado em Revista Caras http://www.caras.com.br/, 16 de agosto de 2006
"Malheur à ceux qui se contentent de peu!"
Henri Michaux - Página 43, Henri Michaux, René Bertelé - Pierre Seghers, 1957 - 221 páginas
„No, I have already said it elsewhere. This earth has had all the exoticism washed out of it. If in a hundred years we have not established contact with some other planet (but we will), or, next best, with the earth's interior, humanity is finished. There is no longer a means of living, we explode, we go to war, we perpetrate evil of all sorts; we are, in a word, incapable of remaining any longer on this rind. We are in mortal pain; both from the dimensions as they now stand, and from the lack of any future dimension to which we can turn, now that our tour of the earth has been done to death.“
— Henri Michaux
These opinions, I know, are quite sufficient to have me looked down upon as a mind of the fourth order.
Ecuador (1929)
„In my night, I besiege my King. I rise up steadily and I wring his neck. He regathers his strength, I come back at him, and wring his neck another time. I shake him, shake him like an old prune tree, and his crown trembles on his head. But nevertheless, he is my King, I know it and he knows it, and it is quite certain that I am at his service.“
— Henri Michaux
Mon Roi, in La nuit remue (1935)
„It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.“
— Henri Michaux
La Nuit des Bulgares in Plume (1938) (Used as introductory line in Jim Jarmusch's film "Dead Man".)
„A mind of a certain size can feel only exasperation toward a city. Nothing can drive me more fully into despair. The walls first of all, and even then all the rest is only so many horrid images of selfishness, mistrust, stupidity, and narrow-mindedness. No need to memorize the Napoleonic code. Just look at a city and you have it. Each time I come back from the country, just as I am starting to congratulate myself on my calmness, there breaks out a furor, a rage… And I come upon my mark, homo sapiens, the acquisitive wolf. Cities, architectures, how I loathe you! Great surfaces of vaults, vaults cemented into the earth, vaults set out in compartments, forming vaults to eat in, vaults for sex, vaults on the watch, ready to open fire. How sad, sad…“
— Henri Michaux
Ecuador (1929)
