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"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
"If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness."
"I respect the opinions of others."
"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."
"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
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