Wars are made to make debt.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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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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