Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Every great change is simple.
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