Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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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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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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