• Art and Culture

  A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  3.6 · 16 votes · 19 reads

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• Virtues

  All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.

  3.0 · 35 votes · 59 reads

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• Various

  America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

  3.9 · 64 votes · 169 reads

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• Virtues

  Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  4.9 · 36 votes · 82 reads

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• Art and Culture

  As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

  3.8 · 26 votes · 36 reads

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• Feelings

  Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  3.1 · 56 votes · 115 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Criticism should be a casual conversation.

  4.4 · 62 votes · 156 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  3.9 · 25 votes · 3 reads

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• Society

  Fame often makes a Writervain, but seldom makes him proud.

  3.1 · 12 votes · 129 reads

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• Virtues

  Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  3.3 · 27 votes · 29 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

  4.4 · 18 votes · 183 reads

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  If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the Writerto observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the

  4.0 · 12 votes · 163 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  3.8 · 9 votes · 0 reads

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• Society

  Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  3.8 · 21 votes · 190 reads

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• Various

  Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 100 reads

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• Feelings

  May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

  4.5 · 59 votes · 99 reads

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• Government and Politics

  My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

  3.5 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• Defects

  Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

  3.8 · 6 votes · 199 reads

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• Art and Culture

  No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  4.4 · 10 votes · 36 reads

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• Art and Culture

  No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

  3.3 · 19 votes · 92 reads

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• Society

  One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  3.1 · 20 votes · 40 reads

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• Virtues

  Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  3.9 · 51 votes · 170 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

  3.5 · 43 votes · 120 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority

  3.1 · 56 votes · 126 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  3.1 · 41 votes · 4 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  3.8 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actor

  4.3 · 27 votes · 163 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  4.5 · 23 votes · 38 reads

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• Time

  The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  4.7 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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• Time

  The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  4.2 · 43 votes · 18 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The critical opinions of a Writershould always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

  3.2 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• Various

  The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  3.0 · 23 votes · 66 reads

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• Nature

  The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  4.1 · 35 votes · 176 reads

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• Various

  To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is pray

  4.3 · 62 votes · 6 reads

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• Virtues

  To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

  4.0 · 17 votes · 171 reads

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• Various

  We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

  4.8 · 57 votes · 29 reads

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• Feelings

  We must love one another or die.

  3.3 · 63 votes · 97 reads

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• Nature

  You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

  4.0 · 63 votes · 69 reads

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• Various

  You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

  4.9 · 24 votes · 151 reads

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