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

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Critics, Unconscious

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet

Critics, Effect

"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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"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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"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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"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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"I was born to travel and write verse."

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"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

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"What I write is not for little girls."

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"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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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"I was born to travel and write verse."

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"What I write is not for little girls."

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

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

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

"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."

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

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."