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"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
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"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."
"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."
"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
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