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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably... →
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal... →
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
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