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The true poem rests between the words.
Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
The poet's first contract is with truth.
You see how it is now? This world in which poetry must live? Where a gentle kiss might be considered strange and the bomb is everyday.
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.
Poetry and aesthetics are far more enthralling than $@$.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Dude, you are a warrior poet!
... keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
The only way to increase (writing style) is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style. I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
I emerge from a dream at the crossroads is it time to go?
When power narrows the areas of man's concern, Poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
The artist, however faithtful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.
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