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"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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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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