A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDOur 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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Every great change is simple.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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