"Why do you always write poetry? Why do……" — Walter Pater
"Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult."
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Walter Pater
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45 Quotes by Walter Pater
Walter Pater has 45 quotes on this site.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…
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More Always Write Quotes
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write…
— Truman Capote
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Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall…
— Lillian Gish
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
— Edward Abbey
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I always write what feels really true and honest and me.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get…
— James Joyce
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I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
— Ron Carlson
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree…
— Cameron Crowe
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... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the…
— Toby Keith
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
— Martin Amis
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People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think…
— Helena
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