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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
Explore more quotes by Edvard Munch
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
"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."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
"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."
"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."
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