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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. — Wislawa Szymborska
- I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska
- Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. — Wislawa Szymborska