"I soon realized that poets do not..." - Quote by Socrates
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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“The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.”
“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”
“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”
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“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”
“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”