“ I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. ”
- Dilys Laing- Copy
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“ One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. ”
- Stephen Sondheim- Copy
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“ Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ”
- Muriel Rukeyser- Copy
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“ Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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