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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement,…
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Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that…
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…
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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
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In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how…
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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem…
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did…
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to…
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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some…
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I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
— Beverly D'Angelo
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Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent…
— Frederic Chopin
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I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.
— Steve-O
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat,…
— Ethel Lynn Beers
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Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.
— David Dreman
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
— Elbert Hubbard
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
— Toni Morrison
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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
— Ernest Gaines
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It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t…
— Donna Tartt
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DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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you can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
— Patrick Ness
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