A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
EZRA POUNDA people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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