The artist is always beginning.
EZRA POUNDThe 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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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