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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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"Music gives strength to the spirit."
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"The art of politics is knowing what to do next."
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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
Art

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
Life

"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."
Religion

"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
Attitude

"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."
Life

"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."
Wisdom

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
Beauty

"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."
Art

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
Experience

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"
Life
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