Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Henri Michaux

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian poet Henri Michaux.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is best known for his poetry and prose, especially his texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline which include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones, as well as his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism.

Belgian - Poet | May 24, 1899 - October 19, 1984

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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

I do not know how to make poems

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

Henri Michaux

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

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

Henri Michaux

Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

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

Henri Michaux

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.