“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.