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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."
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