The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
EZRA POUNDGlance is the enemy of vision.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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