There is no original truth, only original error.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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