"I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."

Poetry, Life, Consciousness, Will

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"I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."

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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

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