English - Poet | December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Herbert Read
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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
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There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
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Man is everywhere still in chains.
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