I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUNDIt is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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