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"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."
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"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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