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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest...  
But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, th...  
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will...  
It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which...  
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the...   Love
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and per...   Art
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of survivi...  
Poetry lies its way to the truth.  
The day will happen whether or not you get up.  
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give ...  
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory con...  
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.  
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering...   Poetry