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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
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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."
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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
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"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."
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"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."
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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
Knowledge
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
Justice
"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
Word
"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
Society
"As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill."
Happiness
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
Knowledge
"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
Music
"This love is silent."
Love
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
Heart
"Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the capacity? Could a man be said to have a vocation To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,A competent copier, possessed by the cravingTo create, when one is wholly uncreative?I don't think so. For I came to see, That I had always known, at the secret moments,That I didn't have it in me. There are occasionsWhen I am transported- a different person,Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-That state of utter exhaustion and peaceWhich comes in dying to give something life..."
Creativity
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