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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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"Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement."
Writing
"He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."
Poetry
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
Life
"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."
Certainty
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
Hope
"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
Man
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
Poetry
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
Poet
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
Poetry
"War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"It's already figured out."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
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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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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
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