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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Pound

The 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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Artist Creation Himself Work
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

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