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“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”

Vladimir Nabokov · Poetry

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I confess, I do not believe in time.

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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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