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All Quotes by author - James Merrill
" And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. "
Own
Me
Said
" Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. "
Hope
Possible
Universe
" At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. "
College
Dead
Dream
" Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. "
Trying
Before
Wrote
" But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. "
Speak
Voice
Me
" He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. "
Go
Leaving
Words
" I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? "
Blake
Need
Like
" In life, there are no perfect affections. "
Life
Affections
Perfect
" Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. "
Find
Words
You
" Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. "
Parents
Easy
Problems
" The simplest science book is over my head. "
Over
Simplest
Book
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