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Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
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.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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