Rhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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