"A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams."
— Poets

January 1, 1970

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Variant translation: A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Only traces bring about dreams. — As quoted in Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics (2000) by Roland Bleiker, p. 50.