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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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The point of vision and desire are the same.

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2nd, 1879

Died: August 2nd, 1955

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