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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
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"Music awaken our soul."
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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
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