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Suggest Revision: Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
 
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Suggest Revision: Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
 
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Suggest Revision: Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
 
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Suggest Revision: Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
 
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Suggest Revision: I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
 
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Suggest Revision: Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
 
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Suggest Revision: Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
 
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Suggest Revision: Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
 
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Suggest Revision: The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
 
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Suggest Revision: The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
 
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