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"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
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"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
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"He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form."
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"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."
Poetry
"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."
History
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
Life
"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
Poet
"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
Accident
"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"
Poetry
"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties."
Art
"Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents."
Excess
"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."
Work
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