"Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event."
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"Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land."
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"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
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"A good sketch is better than a long speech."
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"The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad."
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"Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other."
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"Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises."
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"It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love."
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"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."
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"The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy."
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"Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
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"If you come from art, you'll always be art."
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"First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes."
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"The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick."
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"Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice."
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"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess."
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