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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."

"I was born to travel and write verse."

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

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

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