Jean Genet Quotes
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Citations
Genet, Jean. The Thief's Journal. Translated by Bernard Frechtman, Grove Press, 1964, p. 165.
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The proverb is one of the aboriginal people of Australia.
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
Two of Genet's poems, "The Man Sentenced to Death" and "The Fisherman of the Suquet" were adapted, respectively, as "The Man Condemned to Death" and "The Thief and the Night" and set to music for the album Feasting with Panthers, released in 2011 by Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. Both poems were adapted and translated by Jeremy Reed.