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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through…
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I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as…
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or…
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be…
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Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either…
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our…
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower.…
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers…
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them…
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,…
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a…
— Walker Percy
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I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set…
— Heinrich Heine
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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but…
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very…
— Lactantius
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