Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.