Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDIf 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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Literature is news that stays news.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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 art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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