The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
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