The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
EZRA POUNDThe serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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