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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
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"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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