If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.