Tag: ERGO

Henry Michaux



I am afraid
– afraid that,
once dead,
I shall have in some sense
to live even longer.
(Henri Michaux, Note sur le suicide)


One travels against.
To rid oneself from the native land,
his attachments of every kind
and everything that clings to oneself,
despite oneself.
Voyages of expatriation.
To travel in a sense to purge oneself:
Not to acquire anything.
To impoverish yourself.
That is what one needs.
(Henri Michaux, Interview)