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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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Imitation is suicide.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or ci...more

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The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has...more