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Quote by Erik Satie
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing. – Fernand Leger

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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