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*When a poet is poor, half
of his divine fruits and fancies miscarry by reason of his anxious cares to
win his daily bread.
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-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Postscript to his
Journey to Parnassus, 1614
Walter Starkie, trans.
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*[A] man who means to be a
poet has to use fiction and not facts for his poems.
( . . . ennoêsas hoti ton poiêtên deoi, eiper melloi poiêtês einai, poiein
muthous all' ou logous . . . )
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-The character Phaedo, in Plato's
Phaedo
61b
F.J. Church, trans., 1951
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All the fun's in how you say a thing.
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-Robert Frost
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*The pressure disappeared
with the first word he put on paper. He thought---while his hand moved
rapidly---what power there was in words; later, for those who heard them,
but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like
the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the
scientists have never discovered, the first fount of life, is that which
happens when a thought takes shape in words.
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 15
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Out of our quarrels with others we make
rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
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-William Butler Yeats
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*Every true poet is
inevitably a Columbus.
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- D-503, the hero in Yevgeny Zamyatin's
We, 1920-1921
Twelfth Entry
Mirra Ginsburg, trans., 1972
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