Quotes by Louis Aragon

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The shortcoming, when it comes to poetry, is to want to enact laws, draw up a cadastre, draw borders; poetry laughs at everything and is always reborn, especially where it was decreed not to exist.

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I believe that poetry begins, especially when we understand in ways that are not necessarily of vulgar understanding...

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Poetry makes it easier for me to touch reality in a more direct way, through a kind of raccourci, in which the clearing surprises. Poetic emotion is the sign of the acquired knowledge of the stage-suppressing consciousness.