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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"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."

"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."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
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"I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."

"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."

"Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run."

"There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking."

"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art."
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