The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
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What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscled suits dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb.
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
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To write is a humiliation.
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