he . . . notices that yelling and banging his head against
the wall hardly help...his anger goes underground and
emerges only in disguise, transformed into irony, sarcasm,
or icy calm.

–Milosz on modern man and the evil in society

 
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Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
–Mozart

The past does not influence me; I influence it.
–De Kooning

Once children sense a playful, encouraging, and esthetic (rather than corrective) attitude in e teacher, they become less shy and more willing to take risks.
–Kenneth Koch

The degree of excitement which a writer feels during the process of composition is as much an indication of the value of the final result as the excitement felt by a worshiper is an indication of the value of his devotions, that is to say, very little indication.
–Auden


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