Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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Until 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.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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