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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

Beauty is not caused. It is. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#caused

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#ago #because #brought #cannot #district

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#arts #been #endowment #funding #good

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get. ↗

— Bo Diddley

#advance #applause #get #great #i

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#any #because #bizarre #elephants #killed