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Quotes by Hughes Mearns - (5 quotes)

Hughes Mearns - From the Fear category:

- Creative Power, 1958...
You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it. (Hughes Mearns)

Hughes Mearns - From the Poetry category:

Poetry is when you talk to yourself. (Hughes Mearns)

Hughes Mearns - From the Sight category:

-Antigonish, 1899...
Last night I saw upon the stair / A little man who wasn't there / He wasn't there again today / Oh, how I wish he'd go away. (Hughes Mearns)

Hughes Mearns - From the Studio category:

-b.1875 d.1965...
As I was sitting in my chair, / I knew the bottom wasn't there, / Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, / Ignoring little things like that. (Hughes Mearns)

Hughes Mearns - From the Writing category:

-in 1925...
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted. (Hughes Mearns)