The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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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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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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