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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

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That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

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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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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

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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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Man is everywhere still in chains.

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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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