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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...
To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.Source: In...
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.Source: In An...
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. More about this quote
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.Source:...
I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak....
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind...
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the...
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the...
I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself...
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and...
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...
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