Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Literature is news that stays news.
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