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Artists are the antennae of the race.

Ezra Pound

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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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World

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