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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
Persistence
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Listening
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
Character
"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."
Man
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Living
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Poor
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Friendship
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Wisdom
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
Friendship
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
Persistence
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