"The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance."

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Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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“My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.”
“When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.”

Source : Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber
“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”
“I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.”
“Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.”
“Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.”
“Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.”
“If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books

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