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“That's your response to everything: drink?"
"No, that's my response to nothing.”
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"No, that's my response to nothing.”
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".”
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“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert before you have spent at least as much effort on the art of verse as the average piano teacher spends on the art of music.
Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or try to conceal it.
Don't allow "influence" to mean merely that you mop up the particular decorative vocabulary of some one or two poets who you happen to admire.”
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Be influenced by as many great artists as you can, but have the decency either to acknowledge the debt outright, or try to conceal it.
Don't allow "influence" to mean merely that you mop up the particular decorative vocabulary of some one or two poets who you happen to admire.”
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“Don't you go to the movies?"
"Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.”
― Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
"Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.”
― Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")”
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