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James Merrill

"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"

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Eraldo Banovac

"Sometimes writing is like playing with fire. like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast."

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Eraldo Banovac

"The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material."

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Eraldo Banovac

"For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first."

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Eraldo Banovac

"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists."

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Eraldo Banovac

"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."

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Eraldo Banovac

"I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing."

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James Merrill
"In life, there are no perfect affections."

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James Merrill
"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."

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James Merrill
"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."

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James Merrill
"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."

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James Merrill
"The simplest science book is over my head."

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James Merrill
"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."

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James Merrill
"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"

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James Merrill
"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."

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James Merrill
"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."

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James Merrill
"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."

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