Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDWith one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Every great change is simple.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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