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"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
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"It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
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