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1205 Critic Quotes

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Bondage Impatience Independence
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Been Belief Captive Free
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Always Deepest Feeling Itself
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Appears Cross I Can Think
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Blessed Season Whole world Love
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Afraid Opposition Kite rises Wind
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

Lost upon Growth Wasted One
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Quiet mind Possess Calm Spirit
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius Falls short Actuality Human life
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Man Never Idle Advantage
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Cottage Hold Much happiness
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Question Settle Time Influence
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Germs Truth Ripe moment Answers
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

The maiden Climbed Branches
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

Every side Stretched Men Animals
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Another Conveyed Evil Literal
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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Dope Gossip Inside Vatican
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Cathedral Dedicated Rites Secular
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Art Design Ever Gets
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Genius His Our Our Time
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Accomplish Determined Machine Monkey
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Art Expensive Get Job
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Artist Darkness Duty Hearts
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Accomplished Art Enthusiasm Nothing
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
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Talent works, genius creates.

Creates Genius Talent Works
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Beautiful Beautiful Eyes Because Become
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Aims Aspire Body Ever
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
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I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Although Am Confidence Enough
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Blood Circulation Greatly Hygiene
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Life People People Say Prefer
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

All Day Behave Could Day
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Both Discover God Out
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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Leisure Look Losing May
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Being Eat Eaten Enough
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

After Another Face Find
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