I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
EZRA POUNDA civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Either move or be moved.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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