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5714 Poet Quotes

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Man Good Enough Master
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

Want Change Society Happy life
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

One Life's Jewels Strung
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Want Art Education Freedom
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If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.

Others See Vision Dream
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Nature ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...

Nature Man Ugliness Beauty
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Wherever nature works, there will be beauty.

Nature Works Beauty
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Work Embodiment Dreams Form
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Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Tomorrow Cross Own Rivers
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Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Boundless Risk Pay Gain
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Free men Live Simple Pleasures
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The soul attains.

Heart Desires Soul Attains
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Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Art Man's expression Joy Labour
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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I’ll help you. We shall not be here very long so let us help one another while we may.

Going Way Help Long
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Simplicity Life Misery Foundation
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Man Work Mind Soul
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Man Reading Alive Book
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds

Speak Oppression Tyranny Bonds
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Man Understands Book Lived
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Literature is news that stays news.

Literature News Stays
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Days Nights Life Like
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Slave Waits Someone Come
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Literature is language charged with meaning

Literature Language Meaning
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Fundamental Statement Morality Writing
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself

People Grows Writing Process
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work

Pay Criticism Men Written
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Nothing matter but the quality of the affection in the end that has carved the trace in the mind

Matter Quality Affection Mind
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise

Art Immoral Virtue Witness
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation

Thing Artist Work Leisure
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Artist Nature Open Give
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Words Things Kingdoms Diminish
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension

Human Wisdom Language Forms
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
One Reading Man Keys
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Art Work Beginning Worth
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Man Risk Opinions Good
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Rhythm must have meaning.

Rhythm Meaning
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Writing Reading Me Existing
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