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.
タグ: writing

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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.
タグ: far, dance, poetry, music
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
タグ: come, who, someone, free
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
タグ: artist, violence, live, work
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
タグ: literature, always, age, great
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
タグ: those, just, religion, art
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