Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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 desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Either move or be moved.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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