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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

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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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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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Artist Creation Himself Work
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet

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