“ ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry. ”
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“ Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise ”
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“ Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. ”
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“ one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious ”
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“ Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much. ”
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“ When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ”
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“ When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ”
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“ When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ”
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“ A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. ”
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“ There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. ”
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“ It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ”
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“ It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ”
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“ When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ”
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“ It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ”
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“ War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. ”
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“ When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ”
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“ You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. ”
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“ My father used to say superior people never make long visits. ”
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“ The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. ”
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“ In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ”
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“ Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ”
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“ There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. ”
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