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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.

Ezra Pound

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
Good 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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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason

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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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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