Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
EZRA POUNDIf 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.
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And 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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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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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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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