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
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...
love two people
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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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.
friends people no-friends
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
reason compare
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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.
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.
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.