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1205 Critic Quotes

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Education Limited Men Knowing
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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Glance Enemy Vision
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Either move or be moved.

Either Move
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Genuis Capacity Ordinary Man
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music Departs Dance Poetry
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Humanity Rich Grows Arts
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Man Genius Right Expression
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Wars are made to make debt.

War Made Debt
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Good writers Language Efficient Clear
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Men Business Agree Unnecessary
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Trouble War Chance People
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Great age Literature Translations
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Religion Failures Attempt Art
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big

World Sad Place Big
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art Attracts Reveals Secret
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Truth Terror Moral Idea
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It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to

Where Take Things
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry Game Loser
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What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Greatest Ambition Life Die
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Story Beginning End Order
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It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....

Written Book Things Dying
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Poem Sad Wants Yours
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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Death Building Wise Purpose
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The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Mind Hospitable Learn Knowledge
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The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

Facts History Rehearsed
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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position

Beauty Integrity Logic Position
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Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

Things Harden Moment Indecision
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Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

Love Heritage Mysterious Pure
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Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Beautiful Discarded Impression Ourselves
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Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Reading Pleasure Finish End
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them

Write Experiences Mind About
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Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen

Starts Stink Inevitable Happen
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

View Poetry Life People
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The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

Soul Secret Perfectly Attention
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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Thought Writing Poetry Political
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The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

Soul Establishes Return Safely
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What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

What Past Mental
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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Feel Poetry Time Stream
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I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience

Want Read Easily Resilience
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Shun Bait Struggle Snare
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Dreams Fancy Reason Wakes
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear. To be we know not what, we know not where.

Death Fear Know What
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.

None Busy Fool
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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Die Landing Distant Shore
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Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware Fury Patient Man
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There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Pleasure Mad None Know
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Secret Guilt Silence Revealed
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Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits Allied Bounds Divide
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Bold Sense Good men Starve
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I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
Wounded Slain Rise up Fight
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