Quote by Ezra Pound
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must

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. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

Category:
Heresy
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

All in the Family was intellectual it was art. – Carroll OConnor

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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. – William James, The Principles of Psychology

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