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  • What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes
  • One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Writing Quotes , Texas Quotes
  • The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Country Quotes , Writing Quotes