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The legend of our times, it has been suggested, might be "The Revenge of Failure". This is what Envy has done for us. If we cannot paint well, we will destroy the canons of painting and pass ourselves off as painters. If we will not take the trouble to write poetry, we will destroy the rules of prosody and pass ourselves off as poets. If we are not inclined to the rigors of an academic discipline, we will destroy the standards of that discipline and pass ourselves off as graduates. If we cannot or will not read, we will say that "linear thought" is now irrelevant and so dispense with reading. If we cannot make music, we will simply make a noise and persuade others that it is music. If we can do nothing at all, why! we will strum a guitar all day, and call it self-expression. As long as no talent is required, no apprenticeship to a skill, everyone can do it, and we are all magically made equal. Envy has at least momentarily been appeased,and failure has had its revenge.

Henry Fairlie
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We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Seamus Heaney
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

W.H. Auden
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