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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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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Artist Creation Himself Work
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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