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“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.”

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Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara, born on April 16, 1896, and died on December 25, 1963, was a prominent poet. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known for his unique poetic style and avant-garde artistic ideas that influenced later generations. more

“I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.”

“Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.”

Mean Doe Ends Reality Literature Sake Cubism

Author:Max Jacob

“What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.”

Giving Enough Reality Illusion Sincere

Author:Max Jacob

“We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.”

Race Land Pride Arms Libertarian Guides Opening Courageous Individualism Anarchist Indomitable National Pride

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?”

Past Wish Enemy Dangerous Acknowledge Merit Inferiors Gloomy Tutor

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia”

Beautiful Race Car Victory Race Car

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!”

World Behinds Pride Despair Mouths Fruit Absurd Breasts Immense Good Sense Hideous Reservoirs Unfathomable

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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