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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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"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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"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."
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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."
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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
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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."
Friendship
"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."
Critics
"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
Creativity
"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."
Art
"Books follow morals, and not morals books."
Books
"Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
God
"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."
Body
"What I write is not for little girls."
Audience
"Sooner barbarity than boredom."
Boredom
"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."
Art
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