It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
EZRA POUNDPoets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Either move or be moved.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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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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