"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough."
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"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace."
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"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring."
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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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"I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti."
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"Rhythm is form cut into time."
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"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
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"And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass"
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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
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"Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art"."
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"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."
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"Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood."
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"I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning."
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"In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it."
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"Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press."
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"It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself."
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"What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely."
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"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."
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