If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Either move or be moved.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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