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EZRA POUNDOur 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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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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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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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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