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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
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
Trust
"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 errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Truth
"Wars are made to make debt."
Debt
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
Civilization
"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
Art
"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
Job
"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
Mistake
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Music
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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