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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Émile Zola

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Death and the sowing of seeds: and the life of bread growing up out of the earth.

La Terre (1887)

This woman was as necessary to his life as eating and drinking.

Thérèse Raquin (1867)

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

Pot-Bouille (1882)

As one must die, I would rather die of passion than boredom!

Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)

Could he love this one, without killing her?

La Bête humaine (1890)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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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