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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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"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."

"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."

"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."
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