Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, Madame.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind. The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The Body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of Winter, done repenting.
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She measured to the hour its solitude.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are'. The man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon a blue guitar'.
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