To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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