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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."

"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
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