"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

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"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."

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"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

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"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."

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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."

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"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

"History develops, art stands still."

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

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"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."

"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."

"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."

"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."