It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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