The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDGenius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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