Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDA little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Either move or be moved.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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