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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.
Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.