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— Henry David Thoreau"Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes."
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Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.
— Clive Barker
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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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