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"Yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."
"Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book."
"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."
"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
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"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."
"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."
"Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."
"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum..."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
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