Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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