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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Poetry is life distilled.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.