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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast-Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white-I should not fear the foe then-I should not fear the fight!"

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all."

"Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest."
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