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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

Ezra Pound

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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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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Energy Ideas Image
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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