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"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."

Art, Work, Artist, Consciousness

"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."

Life, May, Now

"Exchange is creation."

Creation,

"I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."

Sacrifice, Choice, Rest, Talk

"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."

Poetry, Day, Hunger, World

"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

Poems, Will

"The journey is my home."

Home, Journey

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Poetry, Spirit

"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed."

Beginning, Beginnings

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."

Poetry, Experience

Exlpore more Writing quotes

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Writing, Reality

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

Anais Nin, American Author

Writing, Culture

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Writing, Read

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Order

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Writing, Music, English, May, Sense

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Lady, Old

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Writing, Mother, Ladies, Old, Will

"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Writing, Leisure, Present

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Time, Will

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Writing, Thoughts, Eloquence, Painting