An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau
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  5. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner

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  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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