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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is news that stays news.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either move or be moved.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
- Good
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
- Nov 07, 2020
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
- Artist
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
- Genius
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
- Ideas
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
- Curiosity
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020