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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."
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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."
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
"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."
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."
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"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."
"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."
"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."
"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."
"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."
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