"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"What counts is the cultural level"
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"Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire."
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"install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time."
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"The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)"
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"No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper."
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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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"Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!"
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"As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it."
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"You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year."
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"Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!"
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"I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made."
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"And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness"
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"Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune."
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"I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality."
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