Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDThe 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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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