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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol

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