All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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