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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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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work
"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 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
"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
"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
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
Thought
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
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