“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”
Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) French writer
“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”
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