Kris Kipling > Kris's Quotes

“Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into the tree trunk. After waiting for a long time, the poet discovers that he is the hare.”
― Gu Cheng

“You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.”
― Sergei Paradjanov

“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
― E. M. Cioran

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've never seen a world
So festering with damnation. I have left
Rings of beer on every alehouse table
From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties,
But each time I thought I was on the way
To a faintly festive hiccup
The sight of the damned world sobered me up again.”
― Christopher Fry