The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDA slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Either move or be moved.
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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 have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Every great change is simple.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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