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I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.