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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Properly, we should read for power.

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

There is something so degrading – at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade – that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, “he does too much.

And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness.

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn’t matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

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.

The artist is always beginning.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention – and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

And the good writer chooses his words for their ‘meaning’, but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

The critic who doesn’t make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men’s results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That’s what the word means.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic – I mean my motion.

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Art that sells on production is bad art, essentially. It is art that is made to demand. It suits the public. The taste of the public is bad. The taste of the public is always bad. It is bad because it is not an individual expression, but merely a mania for assent, a mania to be ‘in on it’.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

What counts is the cultural level.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality – the principle of order versus the split atom.

And if you ask how I regret that parting: It is like the flowers falling at Spring’s end Confused, whirled in a tangle. What is the use of talking, and there is no end of talking, There is no end of things in the heart. I.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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