Writer Between Worlds

“The ego and the self are those catastrophic states of being in which the Living Man allows himself to be imprisoned by the forms that he perceived by himself. To love his ego is to love death, and the law of the Virgin in infinite. (…) The libido is the definition of cadaverous desire, and the falling man an invert criminal. I am such a primitive, discontented with the inexpiable horror of things. I don’t want to reproduce myself in things but I want things to happen through my self. I don’t want an idea of ego in my poem and I don’t want to my self in there, either. (…) He who crucified Himself never returned to himself. Never. For he also surrendered to Life the self by which he sacrificed Himself…”

Antonin Artaud – “Revolt against poetry” in Artaud Anthology, p. 101.