Artists are the antennae of the race.
EZRA POUNDA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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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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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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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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