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"Paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ..."
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"Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see."

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

"A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy."

"A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy."

"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."

"Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ..."

"People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..."

"...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears..."
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