"Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Iâ€™m not comfortable with comfort. Iâ€™m only comfortable when Iâ€™m in a place where Iâ€™m constantly learning and growing.”
“I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.”
“The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books
“I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.”
“I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.”
“No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.”

Source : "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.
“President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'”
“Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.”

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