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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Success
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Truth
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
God
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
Public
"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."
Poetry
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Art
"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
Life
"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."
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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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