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.
EZRA POUNDWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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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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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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