Facts about Louis Aragon

Occup.Poet
FromFrance
BornOctober 3, 1897
DiedDecember 24, 1982
Aged85 years

Summary

Louis Aragon was a famous Poet from France, who lived between October 3, 1897 and December 24, 1982. He/she became 85 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Louis.

Related authors: Jacques Prevert (Poet), Alejo Carpentier (Novelist)

9 Famous quotes by Louis Aragon

Small: We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later"
Small: There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses"
Small: O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself"
Small: Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systemati
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized"
Small: Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious c
"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd"
Small: Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled oppo
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash"
Small: Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work"
Small: I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of gr
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style"
Small: Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"