Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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His self and the sun were oneAnd his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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