From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUNDArtists are the antennae of the race.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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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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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Every great change is simple.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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