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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Ezra Pound

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence

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