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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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