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"You must kill all your darlings."
- William Faulkner

"You must fly your 35 missions again."
- Richard Hugo, “In Your War Dream”

"She does not desire her children,
Or any more children."
- Ezra Pound, “Clara”

"I like doing it if one gets into it; it is something quite different." - W.H. Auden, New York Quarterly Craft Interview, Number 1

"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader." - Vladimir Nabokov

"Is it possible that the whole history of the world has been misunderstood?" - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

"To tell you the truth,
I’d believe in anything
If you’d just turn me loose."
- Langston Hughes, “Ku Klux” from The Panther and the Lash

"Oh no, no that’s only in America, Europe would never have such things." - W.H. Auden

"Love the art in yourselves, not yourselves in the art." - Stanislavsky, My Life in the Art

"There never was a war that was not inward…" - Marianne Moore, “In Distrust of Merits”