"A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself."
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"This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man."
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"A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit."
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"And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges."
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"No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
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"I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten."
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"America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation."
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"We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden."
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"The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace"
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"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
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"It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time."
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"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
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"It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep."
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"A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time."
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"Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling."
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"The what is so much more important than how."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity."
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"In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom."
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"Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome."
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"small talk comes from small bones"
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