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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
Poet
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
God
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Success
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."
Will
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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