I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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 flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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