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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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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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The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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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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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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