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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars"
Gustave Flaubert
"Exuberance is better than taste"
Gustave Flaubert
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be"
Edgar Allan Poe
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better"
Amit Kalantri
"Sometimes you say things with a smiley face when you're really saying them with a frowny face"
Umberto Eco
"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart"
George Sand
"Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth"
Anne Sexton
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty"
John Steinbeck
"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."
Alain de Botton
"Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
Alice Walker
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels"
Thomas Carlyle
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
Noam Chomsky
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty"
Edgar Allan Poe
"With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion"
Edgar Allan Poe
"I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe"
Jacques Derrida
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Ezra Pound
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