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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Either move or be moved.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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