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"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."


"From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue."


"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."


"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."


"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."


"He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."


"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."


"Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral."


"Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world."
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