Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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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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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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