The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDProperly, 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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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