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/ page 991 of 1205 /For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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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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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
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Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
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Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.
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