The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Either move or be moved.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Every great change is simple.
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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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The artist is always beginning.
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