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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet

Critics, Effect

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet

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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

Catherine Drinker Bowen, American Writer

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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

Gerald Brenan, English Writer

"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

Breyten Breytenbach, South African Writer

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

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"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."

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"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

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