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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."
"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."
"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."
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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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