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We who work in literature or poetry must learn to put images of truth or beauty into the minds of readers. The sensitive person is too often cowed by the prevailing materialism in the society around him and particularly in its way of life--cowed to the point of falling in with this way and doing what the others are doing. This is weakness and cowardliness, the surrender to external suggestion.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 9