“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
You are the music while the music lasts.
