"From things that have happened and from..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
“Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.”
“Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.”
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“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”
“Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.”
“A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it”
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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
“Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”