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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

"Music communicates with the soul."

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."


"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."


"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."


"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."


"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."


"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
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