What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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