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Au revoir Caroline Dawson.

“I don’t think literature is superior to other forms of art or knowledge. It’s just another language to tell the world. Other questions seem more urgent to me, for example: What can literature say that it has not already said? Who can say literature? Who is literature talking about, who does it leave out? Who do we write literature for? Who do we never write for?”

— Caroline Dawson, from here.

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“Politics cannot completely disappear from the poem, from its framework or from its margins. Each of us has a political concern. No writer in the world can say in all honesty: I am totally indifferent to politics. It is in the nature of things that politics exist, because it is quite simply the human struggle for life – or survival. The real question is to know how and why the poem, without being political, conceals a political dimension.” (Mahmoud Darwish, Entretiens sur la poésie, 2006)

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“Poetry is a form of intelligence. The poet·ess prepares the conditions for intelligence. They purify their heart. They try things. They drop a stinking dead hare in a circle of chalk, they think, they write their secret with a yellow marker, on a board stained with the sperm of a young man and with the blood of a young mouse and they burn it, bite ripe peaches on the tree, head down, start laughing at a radiator, laughing alone, clap their hands, laugh out loud, they laugh, they laugh, the poet·ess debones themselves, they laugh with a great frank laugh.”

— Christophe Tarkos, Ma langue, 1996

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“The beautiful is always weird.”

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“Who’s satisfied of their lives ?”

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“If we keep on like that, the future will be assholes talking to assholes.”

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“Loneliness doesn’t exist. Nobody was alone at birth. Loneliness is the shadow projected by a tiredness of relationships, in the one who can no longer live haunted by those they have loved, no matter what they got back.” — Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contre-Vent (The Horde of the Counterwind), 2004.

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“Anger is a very beautiful, very noble emotion, that is hoping for a better world, and so there is something joyful about it.”

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“When you see a great artwork, slow down and give yourself a chance to think.” 

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“And it’s true that I'm probably too serious for this world.”

— Martin Margiela

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“Here it’s still darkuall

Actally this is what we tell ourselves to be reassured

Do you think we’ll kiss one day ?

I pierced my ear today”

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“I love solitude.

If I had to make a choice forever, I’d choose being alone.

It’s not that I want to be on my own.

The problem is freedom.”

— Ken Bugul, in Ken Bugul, Personne n’en veut.

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“I cannot go into a film without seeing myself. I wait for me. In the interval, just before the film starts, I wait for me.”

— Frantz Fanon

From Frantz Fanon : Black Skin, White Masks, Isaac Julien, 1995.

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“Since then he had gastro.

And I had a lumbago”

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“Life is naughty.”