Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

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The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

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