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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."

"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."

"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."

"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
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"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."

"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."

"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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