The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Either move or be moved.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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