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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could…
— Tillie Olsen
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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even…
— Thom Gunn
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to…
— Winston Churchill
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What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that…
— Coleman Barks
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We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…
— Hans Zinsser
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
— Aravind Adiga
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's…
— Jane Campion
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