Comte de Lautreamont
Comte de Lautreamont
Comte de Lautréamontwas the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age of 24...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 April 1846
CountryFrance
cruel degrees despair doubt melancholy sad start
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
grandiose known luminous whoever
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
punishment sleep
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
poetry
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
beauty believes considered face himself man rather suppose suspects throughout
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?