But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief,tiptoeing away withmore than it brings.
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