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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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says Im not sorry, and Id do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. – William Hague

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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