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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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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
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