I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Every great change is simple.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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