What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDLiterature 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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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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The artist is always beginning.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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