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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.


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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.



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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.



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Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.



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The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.



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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.



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You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.





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