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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions read more
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which read more
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
