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"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."
"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
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"Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them."
"Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history."
"For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from."
"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."
"At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary."
"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it."
"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."
"There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago."
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