Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDLiterature is news that stays news.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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 apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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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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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.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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