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Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
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There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
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Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
This personal morality may appear to be immorality itself in the eyes of those who lie to themselves, or who live a life of confusion, in such a manner that, for them, a lie becomes the truth, and our truth becomes a lie...
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History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born:
July 5, 1889
Died:
October 11, 1963
(aged 74)
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