All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Every great change is simple.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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.
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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