Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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