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" Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. "
Ezra Pound
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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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" It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. "
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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 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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" Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. "
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" The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. "
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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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" I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. "
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" The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. "
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" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "
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" Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. "
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