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T.S. Eliot
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Umberto Eco
“The problem is to construct the world: the words will practically come on their own. Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow.”
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Dante Alighieri
“We strode across that lonely plain like men who seek the road they strayed from and who count the time lost till they find it once again.”
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Victor Hugo
“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the anguish, the dismay, the despair, became caresses and radiance...and that their sorrows were so many servants preparing their joy. To have suffered, how good it is! Their grief made a halo around their happiness.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Walter Ralston Martin
“A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.”
Walter Martin, Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire

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