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.
EZRA POUNDThe 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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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 difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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