Dreams have as much influence as actions.

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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

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The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

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Yes, indeed, I know we are but vain shapes of matter but so sublime as to have invented both God and our own souls.

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

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I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint,not the thing, but the effect it produces.

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