The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Good 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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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