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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.

Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
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.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

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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