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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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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"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
"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."
Art
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
Literature
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
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