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"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
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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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"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."


"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."


"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."


"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."


"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."


"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
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