“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”-Harold Acton (Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948)
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“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.”-Katherine Mansfield
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“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills that it have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion…elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”-Denise Levertov
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“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to.”-Eudora Welty
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“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”-Henry David Thoreau
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“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”-Gertrude Stein
My newly acquired second-hand copy of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Is the sticky note to highlight or to hide? I'll have to wait until page 269 to find out.
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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind-listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.”-Eubie Blake
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“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”-Pablo Picasso
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“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”-Sylvia Plath
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