How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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Writing a poem is discovering
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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible
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