"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

Creativity, Poetry, Expression, Soul, Emotion

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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']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Creativity, Imagination, Humanity, Art

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Creativity, Solitude, Life, Mind

"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Creativity, Homesickness, Sense, Wrong

"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."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in."

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"On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

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"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

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"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

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"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

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"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

Philosophy

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

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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']"

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."

"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."

"I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in."

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"On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

"Be nothing which thou art not."

"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."

"I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane."

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."