The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
EZRA POUNDThe what is so much more important than how.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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