Jean Genet Quotes
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Citations
Genet, Jean. The Maids. Translated by Bernard Frechtman, Grove Press, 1954, p. 48.
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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.