Michaux Quotes

#1. The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

Franz Wright

#2. It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

Henri Michaux

#3. Work is one of the joys of life. The feeling of accomplishment is priceless." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#4. 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

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

Henri Michaux

#6. Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

James Rollins

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

Henri Michaux

#8. 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.

Henri Michaux

#9. I am deeply reminded that our life's journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.

Sonia Choquette

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

Henri Michaux

#11. Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

Michael Nesmith

#12. Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti

Zadie Smith

#13. Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Carl Jung

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

Henri Michaux

#15. 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

#16. Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

#18. Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

#19. There are two types of spirits; either light or darkness.
Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time.
Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Henri Michaux

#21. I do not know how to make poems

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

#24. His mouth was truly one of his most spectacular accomplishments. It had the gentle fullness of passion, as though he'd just made love. As though he'd just satisfied some fortuitous woman's deepest desires.

Darynda Jones

#25. On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America's oligarchy.

Kenneth Eade

#26. Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.

Cassandra Clare

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

Henri Michaux

#28. Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#30. He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

Henri Michaux

#31. What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

Margaret Mead

#32. There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

Henri Michaux

#33. Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'.

Lewis H. Michaux

#34. Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

Lewis H. Michaux

#35. The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

Henri Michaux

#36. I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know.

Robert Cheeke