It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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