I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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