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"Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."
"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
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