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Ezra Pound

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom

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