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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One 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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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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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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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 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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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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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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