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.
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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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Genius 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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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