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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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

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