Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Every great change is simple.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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