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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Ezra Pound

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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

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