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| Ezra Pound
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d’arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? 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. I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. 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. 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. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. 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. The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune. |
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