Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDNo 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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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