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 temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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