"My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing."

-- Werner Heisenberg

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“I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.”
“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.”
“I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.”

Source : "And now for a world government" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. December 9, 2008.
“You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.”
“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”
“Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.”
“To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.”
“I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."”

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