When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
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That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
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