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enfant terrible Definition

en·fant ter·ri·ble (än fän te rē′bl')

noun

  1. an unmanageable, mischievous child
  2. anyone constantly vexing, startling, or embarrassing others, as, in the arts, by outraging conventional opinion or expectations

Etymology: Fr

enfant terrible Quotes

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

—Sarton, May

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