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

Literature is news that stays news.

Either move or be moved.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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

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 antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

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.

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.

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

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

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

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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 of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Wars are made to make debt.

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

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

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