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"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"Her words dance on the page."
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"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."
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"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."
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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh."
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"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
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"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."
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"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
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"Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
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"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
Life

"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Time

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."
Power
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