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"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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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."

"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."

"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."

"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."

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

"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."
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