Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDReligion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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