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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."
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"It's already figured out."
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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."
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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid."
Poetry
"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
Man
"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
Life
"Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world."
Man
"War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost."
Change
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
Poetry
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
Death
"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
Man
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
Hope
"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."
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