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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."
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"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
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"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."
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"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
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"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."
Family
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
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"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
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