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William Plomer Quotes

«Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.»
«It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.»
«When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.»
«On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.»
«With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,And third-rate conversation without one single pause:Just like a young coupleBetween the wars.»
«It is the 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 forms -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.»
«Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.»