The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDScience 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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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Either move or be moved.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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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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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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