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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 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.

Herbert Read
Song, Use, Speech

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Herbert Read
Independent, Personality, Individual
Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Read
Emotional, Past, Intellectual
Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.

Herbert Read
Art, Two, Feelings
Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.

Herbert Read
Memories, Men, Feelings
"The Cult of Sincerity". Book by Herbert Read, 1968.

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

Herbert Read
Mean, Independent, Civilization
Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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.

Herbert Read
Country, Believe, Numbers

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