Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
EZRA POUNDUse no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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 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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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The artist is always beginning.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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