A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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 temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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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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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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