The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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 apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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