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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and…
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining…
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville…
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There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go…
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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at…
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As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,…
— Orson Scott Card
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than…
— George Santayana
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