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.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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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 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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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