Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDLiberty is not a right but a duty.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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The artist is always beginning.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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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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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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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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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