The what is so much more important than how.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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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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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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