Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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Deserve your dream.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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