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.
EZRA POUNDOne 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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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Every great change is simple.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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