"In these phonetic poems we the Dadaist artists totally renounce the language that journalism has abused and corrupted. We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word, we must even give up the word too, to keep for poetry its last and holiest refuge."

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“That is the meaning of the coming of Christ.. ..that the word becomes flesh and man is saved from abstraction.”

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