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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

— J. D. Salinger Teddy (1953)

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She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

A Girl I Knew (1948)

The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Franny and Zooey (1961)

How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of consecrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose?

Franny and Zooey (1961)

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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