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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"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."

"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."

"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."

"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."

"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."

"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."

"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."

"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
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