Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Christ 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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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