If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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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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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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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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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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