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Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre on poetry

“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)”

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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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