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"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."

"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."

"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."

"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."

"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."

"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
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