The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
EZRA POUNDGood art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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 classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Either move or be moved.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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