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" Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. "
Science
Connecting
Forget
" A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. "
Who
He
People
" A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. "
Mental
Prevention
Used
" Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. "
Answers
Situation
Only
" If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. "
Girl
Women
Men
" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "
Money
Poetry
Neither
" In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. "
Must
Amateur
Love
" Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. "
Money
Marriage
Like
" Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. "
Writing
Wrong
Me
" One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. "
Different
Colors
Matter
" Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. "
Cat
Dogs
Sell
" The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. "
Remarkable
Good
He
" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "
Then
Either
Money
" To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. "
Poet
Profession
Rather
" What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. "
Intellectual
Now
Warm
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