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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."
"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."
"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise."
"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."
"From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me."
"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."
"I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end."
"Of all man's instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination."
"All things left her, allBut one. Her highborn courtlinessAccompanied her to the end,Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,In a way like an angel's. Of ElviraThe first thing that I saw - such years ago -Was her smile and also it was the last."
"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."
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