Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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