The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDNo 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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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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