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"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
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