Every great change is simple.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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 art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Either move or be moved.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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