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You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back door and take the swag.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle 'promise' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."
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His true Penelope was Flaubert,
He fished by obstinate isles.
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
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The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved... This hypothesis... would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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All other sins are open,
Usura alone not understood.
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There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.
Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
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My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.
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With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
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with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
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no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly
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One of the pleasures of middle age is to find out that one was right, and that one was much righter than one knew at say 17 or 23.
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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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To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered...
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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 intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions.
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Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
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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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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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But the beauty is not the madness
Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Ezra Pound
Born:
October 30, 1885
Died:
November 1, 1972
(aged 87)
Bio:
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure in the early modernist movement.
Known for:
The Cantos (1954)
ABC of Reading (1934)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1935)
Make it New (1934)
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