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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Ezra Pound

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word 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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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