Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Either move or be moved.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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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