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    “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.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “no picture is made to endure nor to live with
    but it is made to sell and sell quickly
    with usura, sin against nature,
    is thy bread ever more of stale rags
    is thy bread dry as paper,”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “C’est à Paris que je me coiffe
    Casque noir de jemenfoutiste.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)