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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
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