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"All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is."
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"If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow."
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"Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world."
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"Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you."
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"Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear."
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"Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable."
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"The world is with you."
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"Let me be in your inspiration."
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"Be an encourager not a pacifier."
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"In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on."
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"We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall."
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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."
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"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies."
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"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States."
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"Shakespeare is universal."
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"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem."
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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology."
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"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."
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"But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude."
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"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
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