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Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary

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