Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball
Hugo Ballwas a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists. He was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1886
CountryGermany
rain self tree
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.
beautiful heart age
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
real views long
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
morality ethics ethical
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
humanity flaws
No such thing as humanity without flaws.