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Artists are the antennae of the race.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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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History International Politics Yourself
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason

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