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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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