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Art is fire plus algebra.

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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

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I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an...more

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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for ...more