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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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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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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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Poetry is a religion with no hope.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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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 job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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