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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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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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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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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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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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