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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

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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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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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History International Politics Yourself
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity

Glance is the enemy of vision.

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