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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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Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)
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