Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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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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