Elizabeth A. Drew Quotes

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth A. Drew
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Elizabeth A. Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

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The raw material of poetry is human experience: all poetry is made from that.

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The poet is first and foremost an individual with a personal vision. His poem is not an event in social history nor a symptom of a literary movement; it is an assertion of the poet's singular identity.

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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip.

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Personality is a skin that no writer can slip, whatever he may write about…it is a shadow which walks inexorably by his side.

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One of the unconscious functions of poetry, and the chief conscious function of the interpreter of poetry, is to waken the dead.

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The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

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No age is the Law and the Prophets. We are eternally sowing our future and reaping our past.

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Books are exactly what their authors make them. We have the illusion that stories are in themselves delightful or dull, but it is not so. There are no dull stories, only dull people who write books.

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Poetry can only be judged by the standard of the personality that is judging it. We cannot escape our own limitations. Each reader gets the poetry he deserves.

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The poet is neither an intellectual nor an emotional being alone; he feels his thoughts and thinks his sensations.

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It is not by telling us about life that poetry enriches it; it is by being life.

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Each age, like each person, has its own likes and dislikes, and the idols of one generation often turn into the skittles of the next.

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It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

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The problem of language, of the use of the medium in all its aspects, is the basic problem of any work of literature.

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Life, of course, is the basic raw material of all art, but no artist is so close to his raw material as the novelist.

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Art is selection and symmetry: it creates the illusion of wholeness within its own strictly imposed outlines.

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