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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ‘weasel words’. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ‘weasel word’ after another, there is nothing left of the other.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory … In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle,

Ce qui n’est pas clair n’est pas français.

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,

… Je me suis baigné dans le Poème

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Literature is news that STAYS news.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The age demanded an image

And even I can remember

For three years, out of key with his time,

Tching prayed on the mountain and wrote MAKE IT NEW

Tching prayed on the mountain and wrote MAKE IT NEW

All gardening is landscape-painting.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.