Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDTechnique is the test of sincerity.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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 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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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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