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"Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair."
"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."
"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."
"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
"No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!"
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