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  1. George Bernard Shaw _ Candida

    That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
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  2. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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  3. Helen Vendler _ Poems, Poets, Poetry: An

    Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
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  4. Helen Vendler _ Poems, Poets, Poetry: An

    One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways."
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  5. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
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  6. Gustave Flaubert _ November

    With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady's album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.
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  7. Gustave Flaubert _ Flaubert in Egypt: A

    When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow."
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  8. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Where I Lived, and What I

    The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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  10. Patricia Highsmith _ The Price of Salt

    I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.
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  11. Mary Karr _ Lit

    I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
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  12. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.
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