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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
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A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Vladimir Nabokov :
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I don't think in any language. I think in images. I don't believe that people think in languages. They don't move their lips when they think. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he reads or ruminates. No, I think in images, and now and then a Russian phrase or an English phrase will form with the foam of the brainwave, but that’s about all.
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Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most...are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.
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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
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If there were only some mechanism (like Seurat's proposed system of painting, or the projected Universal Algebra that Gödel believes Leibnitz to have perfected and mislaid) for reasonably and systematically converting into poetry what we see and feel and are! When one reads the verse of people who cannot write poems — people who sometimes have more intelligence, sensibility, and moral discrimination than most of the poets — it is hard not to regard the Muse as a sort of fairy godmother who says to the poet, after her colleagues have showered on him the most disconcerting and ambiguous gifts, "Well, never mind. You're still the only one that can write poetry."
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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