“An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction, superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world, nor does he live in some so-called universe, nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any number of "universes."”
As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
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“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”
Book III, Ch. 10
Attributed
“A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday's clock, nor by today's but by tomorrow's.”
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday's clock, nor by today's but by tomorrow's. It is a sailor sent aloft: from the masthead he can see foundering ships, icebergs, and maelstroms still invisible from the deck. He can be dragged down from the mast and put to tending the boilers or working the capstan, but that will not change anything: the mast will remain, and the next man on the masthead will see what the first has seen.
In a storm, you must have a man aloft. We are in the midst of storm today, and SOS signals come from every side.
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
Time Patrol
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21
Diogenes of Sinope, as quoted in Pearls of Thought (1882), edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 22
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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/954009052090175489 (18 January 2018)
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
Creation seminars (2003-2005), Dinosaurs and the Bible