Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. 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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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The enemy is swift, we must be careful.
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