To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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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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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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The artist is always beginning.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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