If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDIn 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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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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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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