Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
From Ezra Pound
Literature is news that stays news.
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.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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.
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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