No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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