Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.William Butler Yeats
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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Who mocks at music mocks at love.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Swift has sailed into his rest Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler he Served human liberty.
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Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air Their hearts have not grown old.
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