Quote #7

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 begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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  1. The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
  2. Literature is news that STAYS news.
  3. 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.
  4. Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
  5. Make it new!
  6. The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and …
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  8. AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that …

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