"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
-Ezra Pound
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"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.“
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