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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of…
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that…
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the…
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from…
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal…
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,…
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on…
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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when…
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His…
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Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to…
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated…
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