What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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 would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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