Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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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.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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