Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDGenius 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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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 temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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