Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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Deserve your dream.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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