Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. (Antonin Artaud)

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Antonin Artaud

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