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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

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