Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragonwas a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 October 1897
CountryFrance
religion perversion
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
truth errors may
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
bird nocturnal sides
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
ideas teeth hens
In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.
real eruption absence
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
use elements sake
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.
dream reality mind
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.
eye use tomorrow
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
memories golden streets
That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.
men ideas errors
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
pain reading hard-work
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.
book should reviews
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
dream reality rooms
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
book judging demand
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...