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/ page 413 of 1205 /Nietsche is Pietsche."
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The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
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Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour;...
more quotes from Thomas Nashe
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
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A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
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Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us.
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Blest is that government where no art thrives.
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
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But only God can make a tree.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.
more quotes from Howard Nemerov
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application -- why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
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Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. The first thought is this: fear. I cannot write because I am afraid. Of what?
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