The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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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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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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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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