Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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About Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh was a 20th-century French playwright. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression