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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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