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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."


"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."


"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel."
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