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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Pound

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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Artist Creation Himself Work
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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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Build Money Pursue State
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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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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

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