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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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