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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#art #attain #attraction #changing #childish

I am the hero of Africa. ↗

— Idi Amin

#am #hero #i #i am

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#banner #dishes #feel #i #lousy

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#little #point #somebody #writing #you

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#creature #had #his #mouth #night

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#become #billion #careless #four #galaxy

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#becomes #closely #looked #wonderful

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie? ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#come #hey #kid #talk #want