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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

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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet

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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