"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.“
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
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"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
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