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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."
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"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
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"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
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"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."
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"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."
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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
Poetry

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
Positive

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
Marriage

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
Hope

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
Nationality

"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
Perseverance

"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
Family

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Life

"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
Poetry

"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
Poetry
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