Vicente Aleixandre quotes
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“Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.”
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“Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.”
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“Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.”
-- Vicente AleixandreSource : "From the archive, 7 October, 1977: The loneliness of the Nobel poet" by Ernesto Mendoza, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.
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Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
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Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
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“I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.”
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“My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.”
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“Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.”
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