"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet

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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

Gerald Brenan, English Writer

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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

Catherine Drinker Bowen, American Writer

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"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

Breyten Breytenbach, South African Writer

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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

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"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

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"I was born to travel and write verse."

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"I am a man for whom the outside world exists."

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"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."

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"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."

"What I write is not for little girls."

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"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

"Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"I was born to travel and write verse."

"I am a man for whom the outside world exists."

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."