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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch

 

What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light

Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin

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“In art, the obvious is a sin”—Edward Dmytryk

 

No Laughing Matter

For our sins
Divine comedy
Is no joke

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence—Alice Walker

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“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write”—Terry Pratchett

 

I write like I talk and I don’t get talker’s block—Seth Godin

Idle pen
Or empty ink well
Which came first

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“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.” —Lionel Trilling

Artists are low key astronauts. Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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