It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUNDChrist can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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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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