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
crowd kinds love oblivious people
Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.
function furnish genius ideas twenty
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
beautiful moving dark
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.
meaningful black-and-white light
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
reason compare
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
friends people no-friends
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
stupidity police arms
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.
photography squares illustration
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity...
doors people solitude
Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.
book should reviews
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
eye use tomorrow
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
book judging demand
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...
real eruption absence
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
blow sometimes pleasure
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.