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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

— Peter Ackroyd

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I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

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One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

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He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.

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