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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.  
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure...  
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make t...  
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.  
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is...  
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the ...  
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.  
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.  
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.  
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.   Poetry
Superior people never make long visits.  
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive diseas...  
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have co...  
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could b...  
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.  
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation t...