Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Wish Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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