When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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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 guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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