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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."
"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
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"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
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