Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
EZRA POUND
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Either move or be moved.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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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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