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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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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..."
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