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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
