Every great change is simple.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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