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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Accident Companisoble Indispensable Nature Reality
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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