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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but its differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. – Michael Cunningham

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Poetry

Why should poetry have to make sense? – Charlie Chaplin

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Poetry

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. – Calvin Coolidge

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An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. – William Castle

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You can never turn the clock back and, since were talking about mental health, I would stress that. – Peter Shilton

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I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think its just as much about loneliness. – Jason Schwartzman

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