Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDTo say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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