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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 most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value

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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