Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDGood art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The artist is always beginning.
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A 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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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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