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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is pray
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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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