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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 Pound

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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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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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Cancer Life World
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay

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.

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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.

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