Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The artist is always beginning.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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