A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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And I’m not a poet: but never despair! I’ll madly live the poems I shall never write.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.
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A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.