Kris Kipling

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

“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

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

“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