- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
- Faster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
- Listens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Misunderstood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Conscious
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
- Nov 07, 2020