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The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

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