Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
EZRA POUNDWhat thou lovest well remains.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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