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.
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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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Until 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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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.
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