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Let us honor if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizonal one.
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There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
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Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odourless.
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To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
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The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.
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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
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In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
February 21, 1907
Died:
September 29, 1973
(aged 66)
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