William Plomer quotes
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“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
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“It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.”
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“To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.”
-- William PlomerSource : Robert Francis Kilvert, William Plomer (1969). “Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]”, Jonathan Cape
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“The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.”
-- William PlomerSource : William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”
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“Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.”
-- William PlomerSource : William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”
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“It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
-- William PlomerSource : "Electric Delights".
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
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“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”
Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.12, Laurel Leaf
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