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Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.

— Karen Lord Redemption in Indigo (2010)

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Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.

Redemption in Indigo (2010)

The ability to know another’s mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.

Redemption in Indigo (2010)

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to arrive at creative solutions.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

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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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