The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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