Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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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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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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