Quote #2

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

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  1. Image:that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
  2. Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.'
  3. Make it new!
  4. But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
  5. The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
  6. The author's conviction on this day of the New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry beg…
  7. Literature is news that STAYS news.
  8. Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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