A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

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