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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself 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

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