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.
EZRA POUNDTo say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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