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5714 Poet Quotes

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Asset Chief Ignorance
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Burns Fire Novel Taught
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Day Evening King Sun
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Prefer After Beauty Know
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Room Full More Fill
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

After Final Future World
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alone Beauty Come Death
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Candle Dark God High
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Poet Merely Proves Exists
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Value Along More Perhaps
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Beyond Difficult Find More
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Becomes Case Certain Epidemic
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Around Depends Lake Perhaps
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Applied Bearing Dress Found
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

True Play Life Real
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Love Matter Memory More
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
Believe Confess Time
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sunrise Death Even Great
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Surface Fully Home Like
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Wave Explain Sea Whole
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

More Perilous Revelation Revolution
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vast Obscure Series Existence
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Write Speak Author Child
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Work Art Society Only
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Safe Magic Trash Power
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Activity Bath Communal Group
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Evolution Nonsense Sense
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Blush Contain First Matter
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Mind Exists State Being
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Harm Ends Feel Happy
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