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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part... →
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.