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"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
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"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."
"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
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