The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUND
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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