Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Every great change is simple.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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