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EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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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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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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