Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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The artist is always beginning.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Every great change is simple.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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