The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry to maintain 'the sublime' In the old sense. Wrong from the start No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.
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