Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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