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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Every great change is simple.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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