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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Ezra Pound

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

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