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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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