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.
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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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The artist is always beginning.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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