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"The poetry of yesterday was looked upon as expressive of a troth."
"Make it new is not a formula but a state of mind."
"It is not every day that we are needed."
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers."
"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands."
"Simplicity & straight forwardness and serenity are the qualities that go the farthest."
"Art is the revelation of a thing, not the thing itself."
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"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, but for human emotions."
"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
"An artist is a critic of society."
"When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind."
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain saneness of attitude rather than a body of true beliefs."
"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands... If time permitted I could lay out for you in one half-hour that which has been repeated for two years."
"Art is the anti-purgative. It is a search for unity forced into moments of vision."
"The individual is the only real thing in nature and in life."
"What matters first and last is not art but life."
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
"All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments."
"One reads, one writes, one makes judgments solely for self."
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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions."
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
"Poetry is a composition of the best words in the best order."
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
"Art is the production of the human intelligence, a state of the human mind, costing a certain number of shillings."
"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good."
"The tale of the tribe is the story of our time in its extended sense. It since the moment whin Man first combined sound and image, clay and shadow, two frantic systems, a visual and vocal apparatus, working in symphony."
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
"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."
"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
"The act of technique should never be very far removed from the act of seeing."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods."
"The age demanded an image, something that would represent it, represent it at a single glance."
"And New York, if I were to name one person on this planet that is having to do with the tale of the tribe, it would be Gertrude Stein."
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
"Clichés are the armchair traveler’s illusions of actuality, false coins of the realm. Let us have the compound interest."
"The age demanded an image, something that would represent it—that would represent it at a single glance."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Artists are the antennae of the race."
"Only emotion endures."
"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
"Literature is news that stays news."
"The artist is always beginning."
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
"Progress is the law. Things are to be done. The brains of men are not enough; they must be helped by the technique of body rhythms and natural forces."
"Make it new."
"The temple is holy because it is not for sale."
"Mankind is the substance I am furthist from."
"The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the father's roof."
"Pleasure is a vision of the future and anxiety is a false vision of the future."
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance."
"If poetry is a competition, why isn't rhetoric the art of lying and cosmetics a branch of surgery?"
"Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil."
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as well must live in time and place."
"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
"The real artist makes a cocktail of reality and imagination, transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
"Make it new. Start from scratch. Renew your vision and your artistry with each creation."
"Poetry is a synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. It is both fragrance and sustenance for the soul."
"Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the mulch."
"There are no stagnant waters in the world of art. An artist’s mind must flow like a river, always seeking new channels."
"Art cannot be imprisoned by rules. It must be as free as a bird in flight, soaring through the realms of imagination."
"The beauty of words lies not just in their meaning, but in their sound and rhythm. Poetry is music for the soul."
"A good writer must capture the essence of the fleeting moment, immortalizing it in the amber of literature."
"Criticism is a necessary evil in the world of art. It sharpens the artist’s vision and refines the work like a sculptor’s chisel."
"To write great poetry, one must have the soul of a poet and the eye of an eagle, keenly observing the world around them."
"The past is not dead; it is living in us. The world of literature is a continuum, each work building upon the foundation of its predecessors."
"True art is not just a mirror reflecting reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. Artists are the architects of the future."
"In the realm of poetry, brevity is the soul of wit. Every word must be carefully chosen, like precious stones in a jeweler’s setting."
"Language is the artist’s palette, each word a color to be blended and mixed to create a masterpiece of expression."
"The poet’s task is not to reflect the world as it is, but to reimagine it in a way that reveals its hidden truths and beauty."
"Art is a journey into the unknown, a quest for meaning and beauty in a chaotic world. The artist is both guide and explorer."
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