Literature is news that stays news.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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