Quote by Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman

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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way. – David Frost

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. – Albert Einstein

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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. – Camille Paglia

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Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same. – T. S. Eliot

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Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead. – Eli Stanley Jones

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