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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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