A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
EZRA POUNDFrom 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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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Either move or be moved.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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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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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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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