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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

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The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

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Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

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