A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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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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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Either move or be moved.
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