The artist is the antenna of the race.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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