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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
Enemy
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
Fear
"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
Poems
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
Death
"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
Health
"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."
Life
"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."
Being
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Self-Perception
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
Peace
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
Death
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