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.
EZRA POUND
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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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.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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