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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.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous

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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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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