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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

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L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

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Literature is news which stays news.

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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone can truly be,For 'tis in dream I come to thee.Ezra ...more

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Literature is language charged with meaning

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Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

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The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wallShe walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,And she ...more

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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the ...more

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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

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A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

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And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth.