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Soren Kierkegaard quote: "A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the..."
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. Soren Kierkegaard
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? L. M. Montgomery
The Plot Against The Giant. First Girl. When this yokel comes maundering, Whetting his hacker, I shall run before him, Diffusing the civilest odors. Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers. It will check him. Second Girl. I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors. As small as fish-eggs. The threads. Will abash him. Third Girl. Oh, la... le pauvre! I shall run before him, With a curious puffing. He will bend his ear then. I shall whisper. Heavenly labials in a world of... Wallace Stevens
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer? It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings. Stanley Kunitz
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born. Paulo Coelho
The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself. Paul Auster
Do you want to fix it?"I just said I was in love with her. Why wouldn't I want to fix it?"You want to know how?"Goddamn it, Del." He drank again. "Yes, since you're so fucking smart. How do I fix it?"Crawl."Jack blew out a breath. "I can do that". Nora Roberts
Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art form one would praise by saying it's "invisible"? By definition, art transcends the ordinary, calls attention to itself, and offers virtuosity as its calling card. One that makes it possible to do what metaphor does so well: illuminate what... Diane Ackerman
Burton Rascoe quote: "What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is..."
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. Helen Keller
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. Ray Bradbury
David Sedaris quote: "A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then..."
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. David Sedaris
Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Rainer Maria Rilke
Bono quote: "Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what..."
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed. Bono
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. L. M. Montgomery

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