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"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
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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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"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 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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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established."
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
Film
"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
Poetry
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
Love
"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."
Care
"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
Reading
"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."
Books
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