Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUNDThe worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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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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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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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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 have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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