"The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
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"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
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"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
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"It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it."
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"Any damn fool can be spontaneous."
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"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
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"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension."
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"Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence"
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"No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life."
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"And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably."
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"Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands."
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"The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories."
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"The artist is always beginning."
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"Artists are the antennae of the race."
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"Poetry must be as well written as prose."
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