A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDAnd the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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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