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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry

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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