Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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