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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness
"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
Family
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Art
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
Love
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Life
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Music
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
Existence
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