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"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."
"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened."
"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."
"Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
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