Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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