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The Great Modern Heresy In Poetry Is To Confuse The Use We Make Of Words In A Poem With Modalities Of Speech...for True Poetry Is Never Speech But Always A Song.

The Only Sin Is Ugliness, And If We Believed This With All Our Being, All Other Activities Of The Human Spirit Could Be Left To Take Care Of Themselves.

The Fundamental Purpose Of The Artist Is The Same As That Of A Scientist: To State A Fact.

These Groups Within A Society Can He Distinguished According As To Whether, Like An Army Or An Orchestra, They Function As A Single Body; Or Whether They Are United Merely To Defend Their Common Interests And Otherwise Function As Separate Individuals.

In Order To Create It Is Necessary To Destroy; And The Agent Of Destruction In Society Is The Poet. I Believe That The Poet Is Necessarily An Anarchist, And That He Must Oppose All Organized Conceptions Of The State, Not Only Those Which We Inherit From The Past, But Equally Those Which Are Imposed On People In The Name Of The Future.