A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUNDThe primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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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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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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