Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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