All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Our 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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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