Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. Its always so. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People dont deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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One cant relive ones life. Forgiveness is not whats difficult ones always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, thats obvious. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Forgiveness
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Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredoms the usher, there all the time to spy on you… – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

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Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. – Robert Adamson

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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