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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

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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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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