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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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