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"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
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"You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living."
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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."
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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
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"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."
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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
Poetry

"Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid."
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"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
Man

"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
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"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
Poetry

"The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue."
Death

"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."
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"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
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"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
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"Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement."
Writing
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