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"The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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