A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
E. B. WHITEEarly summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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