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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.

Ezra Pound

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence

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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