The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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