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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

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Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the p...more

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The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

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Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

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Originality must compound with inheritance.

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All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

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Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

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Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.