Dada poet Tristan Tzara (quotes + poem)

. t.r.i.s.t.a.n. .t.z.a.r.a.
I empathise so much with this writer and it's hard not to because he evaluates everything from
the standpoint of the body. Here are some of his sharp oneliners from his Dada manifesto
1918 and a poem of his...

"Logic is always wrong. It draws the threads of notions, words, in their formal exterior,
toward illusory ends and centres.”

"Logic is a complication..Its chains kill, it is an enormous centipede stifling independence

tarred with Protestantism”

“Logic imprisoned by the senses is an organic disease”

“Psychoanalysis is a dangerous disease, it puts to sleep the anti-objective impulses”

“Morality creates atrophy like every plague produced by intelligence”

“Those who are strong in words or force will survive, for they are quick in defence, the
agility of limbs and sentiments”

“Let each man proclaim: there is a great negative work of destruction to be accomplished.”

"I proclaim the opposition of all cosmic faculties to this gonorrhoea of a putrid sun issued
from the factories"

"pity is a sentiment like diarrhoea...that destroys health, a foul attempt by carrion corpses to
compromise the sun”
“Morality has determined charity and pity, two balls of fat that have grown like elephants,
like planets"

"Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions,
grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE"

The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three

where we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in
the distant sulphur morning the cows lick the salt lilies
my son
my son
let us always shuffle through the colour of the world
which looks bluer than the subway and astronomy
we are too thin
we have no mouth
our legs are stiff and knock together
our faces are formeless like the stars
crystal points without strength burned basilica
mad : the zigzags crack
telephone
bite the rigging liquefy
the arc
climb
astral
memory
towards the north through its double fruit
like raw flesh
hunger fire blood

by Tristan Tzara