Liberty is not a right but a duty.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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