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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
Death

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children."
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
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"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
Society
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