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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

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