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" Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. "
T. S. Eliot
Creativity
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" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "
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" Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. "
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" So the lover must struggle for words. "
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" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "
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" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "
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" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "
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" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "
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" The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. "
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" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "
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" The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. "
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" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "
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" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
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" You are the music while the music lasts. "
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" Home is where one starts from. "
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" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "
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" We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. "
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" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "
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" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "
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" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "
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" If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' "
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" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "
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